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Digital Storytelling: A Tool for Educators
Session Overview:
Digital Media is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. Participants will use various delivery systems for their digital media to push content to their students. As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. Digital media usually contains some mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music.


Date & Time:
March 21, 2011 (OPAL)
March 23, 2011 (LIFE)
8:30 - 3:00

Session Location:
415 89th Street, 4th floor Conference Room
Petrides Complex, Building A Room 118

Objectives:
  • Participants will learn a variety of delivery systems for digital storytelling
  • Participants will learn the power of digital stories to push content to their students
  • Participants will successfully learn to utilize Digital Storytelling as a 21st century assessment tool for Curriculum Maps
  • Participants will create short digital stories

Practical Application:
This workshop will provide participants with the necessary skills to successfully organize, plan, create, and share a wide variety of digital storytelling that incorporates a variety of content aligned to the common core standards.

Agenda:

Welcome & Introductions
Understanding 21st century storytelling
Digital media in the classroom
Activity: View and Reflect
Tools for creating Digital Media
    • Planning Platforms
    • Creation Platforms
    • Filming Techniques
Script-Story Maps
Activity: Create Digital Stories
Looking ahead-Mobile Devices for storytelling
Evaluation
Resources

Class Outline:

8:30 - 9:00
Welcome & Introductions:
Teacher Surveys over Coffee

What is Digital Storytelling?
Imagine a learning experience, supported and extended by the application of technology, that empowers students to create and contribute, all within the context of what they are expected to know and be able to do in the 21st Century. Imagine that this learning experience provides students with a compelling and competitive voice and enlarges the boundaries of their ability to communicate, potentially to a worldwide audience. That learning experience is digital storytelling.
In the following video a variety of clips, including scenes from movies, television shows and news broadcasts, were downloaded from the web and and pieced together to clearly illustrate the power of digital storytelling.


9:00 - 9:15
Model the Educational Value of Digital Storytelling


9:15 - 10:00
In the Classroom
Use Digital Storytelling as a 21st century assessment in Curriculum Maps -- WHY?
Add a Digital Project to your Atlas Map
  • Access your School Atlas site
  • Find your map
  • Revise a current unit, or create a new unit
  • Define your topic, etc.
  • Add technology project to your map (assessment section)

Activity-View and reflect:
Our Visual World


Digitales Demo Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbcSVLYOf-w 
  • What's the essential question?
  • How could this digital story enhance learning?

10:00 - 10:15
Coffee & Teacher Survey

10:15 - 11:00
Activity-The Process
This will be an activity that will help participants understand the steps needed to create a digital story.
Storyboarding your Essential Question:
  • Return to your Atlas Unit
  • Create an essential question. From that questions write one sentence that illustrates that question. Include setting, action and characters.For example.
    • Essential Questions - How do living things adapt to changes in their environments?
    • Storyboarding Sentence - Polar bears are trapped on icebergs because global warming is causing icebergs to melt.



The Script



11:00 - 12:00
Tools for Capturing Images and Audio:
  • Demo Model Storyboard & Images related to essential question - How do living things adapt to changes in environment?
  • Activity: Capture your images. Capture tools can include Mobile Device, Digital camera, Flip Video, or search for copyright free images and clips (audio, video) on the internet.
  • Store images and audio on a desktop folder.

Copyright Free Images

Copyright Free Audio and Music
Video Clips

12:00 -1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 1:30
  • Demo PhotoStory 3
  • Create your digital story by using one of the Tools for Creation

Working with digital cameras:

1:30 - 2:30
Production Time

  • iMovie
  • Windows Movie Maker
  • iMovie... How to Use Green Screen with iLife '09 (advanced)
  • Photostory 3 - Requires a download from microsoft (FREE)
  • Aviary - Myna is a free web-based audio track mixer created by Aviary. Using Myna you can mix together up to ten tracks to create your own audio files. The sounds you mix can come from the Myna library, your vocal recordings made with Myna's recorder, or audio tracks that you upload to your Myna account. Using Myna you can record and save podcasts. You can then publish them to a free host like Blubrry.
  • Little Bird Tales is a nice site intended for younger students to use to create digital stories. Little Bird Tales walks users through each step of creating a multimedia story. Users can upload images, draw images, or record from their webcams. Stories can be written with text or narrated by students using microphones connected to their computers.
  • JayCut is a free, online, video editing service. JayCut has elements of iMovie and Movie Maker in a free online application. JayCut is free to use and your final product can be downloaded to your local computer. Here are some of the highlights of the JayCut editor:
  • Animoto. Animoto makes it possible to quickly create a video using still images, videos, music, and text. If you can make a slideshow presentation, you can make a video using Animoto. Animoto's free service limits you to 30 second videos. You can create longer videos if you apply for an education account.
  • VoiceThread A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.

2:30 - 2:45
Publish & Share with OET SBSI SchoolTube
Evaluation
Register for Upcoming Digtal Media Workshop (online)
2:45 - 3:00
Follow-up Workshops
Orientation to Digital Media Online Class
Registration
Hardware & Documentation


Additional Resources

Downloading Clips to your computer for use
  1. Zamzar
  2. KeepVid
  3. http://www.viddownloader.com/
  4. http://www.savevid.com/

Publishing and sharing with Schooltube (our upload site of choice)

  • Schooltube
    • Create a school channel
    • Uploading videos as a student
    • Choosing a favorite video
      • Making a video your default video for your channel
  • DVD, External hard drive or Computer hard drive

Sample Instructional Media:

Physics In The Park
Wild West Outlaws
Sample Projects

Resources:
Digital storytelling comes in many forms. Digital storytelling could refer to creating podcasts, videos, or multimedia ebooks to name of few of its forms. If you're considering developing your first digital storytelling project for your class, here some resources that can help you get started.

Storytelling with David Jakes a Perspective
The Six Step Process by David Jakes

DAVE'S PERSPECTIVE...
What composes a digital story? (requires **Adobe Acrobat Reader**)
What is the **process** of digital storytelling? Explore each component of the process here.
What are the **seven elements** of storytelling design?
What do students **learn**?
How do I get **started**?
What **tools** are available for digital storytelling?
Digital Media Teacher guides by Microsoft- Interactive